The first cross-strait Sinology Forum "recently held in Xiamen Yuandang College

National Studies by the Institute of Xiamen University and Xiamen Yuandang College co-sponsored the "First cross-strait Sinology Forum" recently held in Xiamen Yuandang College. More than 60 scholars from home and abroad together Mingru, Cheong of Learning in the tradition of contemporary significance and cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.

    This year marks the 880 anniversary of the birth of Zhu Xi, the forum's theme of "Zhu Xi and contemporary society." Xiamen University President Zhu Chongshi really opening ceremony, said Zhu life seven years, left us a splendid heritage, the future of the Song Chinese society and culture played an important role. Zhu Xi's thought since the 13th century to the world after Japan, South Korea's history has been fully developed, a common East Asian Civilization Modern Thought.

    ARATS vice chairman Zhang Mingqing said at the opening ceremony, Zhu Xi on the formation of the Chinese cultural psychology and cultural character played a huge role in shaping. Stretch of five thousand years of Chinese culture is a continuously flowing river rolling through time and space, the Chinese culture is deeply rooted in Taiwan. Taiwan culture has enriched the Chinese culture. In today's peaceful development of cross-strait cultural exchanges, like a steady stream of flowing water, the development of cross-strait relations will inject inexhaustible power, and the Chinese culture to new heights.

    The Forum, 35 Zhu Xi experts do address the General Assembly concerning the Zhu Xi and Chinese culture, promote social customs of Zhu Xi and correct the activities of contemporary, modern East Asian Confucian scholar Zhu Xi for the "principle" the concept of critical understanding of modern Confucianism in Japanese society, Zhu Xi, "the main static" A Modern Interpretation of other topics.

    Dean of the White Deer Hollow Lushan Zhu Ruixi that Xi is a encyclopedic scholar, and his various writings is a treasure house of ancient Chinese culture. Soochow University, Professor Xu Hong believe that Zhu is an important contribution to universal access infiltration of Confucianism to the Chinese people, so that ordinary people can accept the Confucian, Zhu Xi, the spirit of statecraft, and the summary of the history of some of the experiences spread to people.

    Arizona State University professor of the Tian Hao, "Zhu family ritual - the wedding", pointed out that the Confucian tradition in the maintenance of family to avoid a "modern Western disease or illness", to date, Chinese people should "Zhu family ritual," the modern transformation in order to avoid total Westernization, Chinese culture to find ways of self-salvation.

    Han Guoru Education Association, Professor of Sungkyunkwan big school to occupy a Professor Cui Yingchen discusses cultural relations with East Asia. Zhu in "man and nature, social" aspects of the establishment of the ideological system, in the next few centuries the world has become a fundamental understanding of East Asian standards. At the same time, South Korea, Japanese scholars critical of Zhu Xi's successor, the East Asian culture has had a profound impact.

    National Tsing Hua University, said Professor Yang Rubin, Zhu Xi and Confucian predecessors in that its a very different life of Heaven very seriously. In Zhu Xi's doctrine, the natural life of said gasification of Heaven Heaven preset inter-relationship between a sensor; and body with a theory is an important entry Zhu Xi.

    Peking University Professor Kung believes that Confucianism has a strong practical. Changes in the social structure of modern society, the family of the ethical relationship, in the short remote community along the interpersonal environment, social organizations and lifestyles have changed completely, should be "Zhu family ritual" in this number of rituals, by the way of modernization , re-combined them.

    National Institute of Xiamen University, Chen Zhiping, executive vice president for academic summary of the forum. Scholars in the seminar pointed out that the broad nature of the topics rich, for Zhu Xi's political, moral principles, history, philosophy, education and management are involved.